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I started on GitHub, moved to a job that used Gitlab, and then another that uses Bitbucket. Being platform agnostic about CI/CD and Git, I think, looks better than being wed to a single provider.

What discoverability does GitHub provide anyway? I know they have that Explore page but I was under the impression they were trying to kill that. I have mostly found projects through the source link on whatever package manager I discovered it on.

Think of this the other way around. Do you want to work for a company who equates "GitHub" with coding and doesn't know what GitLab is? I wouldn't.

I think lots of perfectly good companies have hiring people who might make this kind of mistake. But I'm also concerned it would doom an open source project, as contributors/users would have more trouble finding it.

I agree. There's a popular roguelike which is hosted on GitLab (called Infra Arcana) and it's not always easy for people to find it, nor to find the equivalent of GitHub's Releases page.